Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 May 2019
B.C. eye doctors warn province of spike in glaucoma cases linked to injections of eye drug
23 May 2019 - Thousands of retinal-disease patients in British Columbia are being exposed to an “increased risk of severe glaucoma and peripheral blindness” because toxins may be leeching into an injectable medication that is widely used in that province, a group of top eye doctors is warning.
The B.C. Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons (BCSEPS) has taken the unusual step of hiring a lawyer to press its demand that the provincial government halt use of the injections, whose potential dangers were flagged by glaucoma specialists in an e-mail in February.
“We have given the government a deadline of May 24, 2019, to adequately address this practice, which is dangerously affecting thousands of patients on a daily basis,” the BCSEPS executive wrote in a May 16 e-mail to ophthalmologists that was obtained by The Globe and Mail.
